As might be expected with the dysfunctional systems at Merrill Lynch, when I open their Margin Account Application
It shows my Trading Account which has margin approved, and my Roth account.
"Based on your login, you have no accounts eligible for margin." LOL
Merrill is little changed from when I first did business with them for 3 or 4 months when I was 16 years old. When I noted their defects my grandfather suggested Sutro & Co which was far more modern.
We've run out of other people's Social Security taxes needed to subsidize our low income tax rates.
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